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[Rafa]

27 Nov 2008 : Stade de France/SAIL appointed Green Point Stadium Operator

The City of Cape Town’s Bid Adjudication Committee approved the award of the service contractor for the operation of the new Green Point stadium to the consortium of Stade de France and South Africa’s SAIL Group. The legal entity formed by the consortium is Business Venture Investments 1317 (Proprietary) Limited.

The award includes for the consortium to be involved with the management of the Green Point stadium from January 2009 to help ensure the successful hosting of eight World Cup matches. The City will pay the consortium to manage the stadium up to and during World Cup 2010 as a 68 000 seater stadium.

Thereafter the consortium will lease the stadium from the City for a period of not less than ten and not more than thirty years with review periods at certain points. The City will receive 30% of Earnings before Tax (inclusive of municipal rates) on a fixed percentage basis. Thus, if the stadium becomes very successful, the City’s returns rise significantly. The approval of the lease of the stadium resides with Council and will be considered on 3 December 2008.

After 2010, the stadium will be reduced to a 55 000 seater. The stadium can cater for rugby, soccer and other sport events, music concerts, major events and spectaculars. It will have, amongst others, corporate hospitality suites, medical, training, conferencing and banqueting facilities. The consortium will operate the stadium as well as manage and maintain the defined areas of the surrounding urban park and sport precinct on the 85 hectare Green Point Common from stadium revenue.

Mike Marsden, Executive Director of Service Delivery Integration of the City of Cape Town, said: “The City is very pleased that this comprehensive and detailed negotiating process has come to fruition. Cape Town is gaining a world-class, purpose-built stadium in arguably the most beautiful setting in the world. It is getting a team with an international and local track record of experience and success to maximize the value, revenue and viability/sustainability of its stadium.

“Cape Town residents and visitors are getting a world-class facility which will host prime sports matches and spectacular events as well as gaining an upgraded sport and recreation precinct. This is very good news for Cape Town,” said Marsden.

The in principle agreement provides for a detailed contract to be signed between the parties which will describe the roles and responsibilities of the City and the operator in terms of aspects such as maintenance, parking, informal trading, insurance for eventualities and sureties. The operator has offered sureties totaling R10 million.

Stade de France is a successful and profitable 80 000 seater multi-purpose stadium in Paris, France that hosted the 1998 FIFA World Cup™ and the Rugby World Cup in 2007. SAIL is one of the largest sport marketing companies in South Africa.

[Rafa]

World Cup dream transforming South Africa



Just a couple of miles from a school, the majestic curved bowl of Soccer City, the stadium that will host the World Cup final on July 11, 2010, rises from what was disused land, where they mined 60 per cent of all the gold in the world.

The stadium’s colours are ochre and brown, the shades derived from a traditional African cooking pot, the curve of the venue shaped like the pot’s sides. Inside, the final lengths of grey steel are sliding into place above what looks like a perfect circular bowl. If Wembley is the best stadium in the world, as the FA never tires of saying of its £757 million monolith jammed into an industrial estate in northwest London, Soccer City is an architectural gem carved from the defunct gold fields of Johannesburg.

The 94,000 seats are from the same British manufacturer as those fitted in Wembley but, after that, the similarities quickly evaporate. Fans at Soccer City will feel that they are within touching distance of the pitch. The concourses are wide and tall and architects say that Soccer City will have more catering outlets and toilets than any other stadium in the world.

Supporters will be ferried there in high-speed buses, tethered in dedicated lanes like rubber-wheeled trams, and enter along a wide, Sowetan version of Wembley Way. But instead of a view of Wembley Park Tube station, they will have Johannesburg’s towering skyline behind them. This is football in glorious widescreen Technicolor, a continent away from Wembley’s beer and burgers culture.

Sepp Blatter, the president of Fifa, world football’s governing body, has probably had more than one sleepless night wondering whether South Africa’s plan to revamp five stadiums and build five new ones was an ambition too far. Whispers that the 2010 World Cup may have to be shifted to an emergency destination, such as England or Germany, grew louder. But Soccer City will be finished next summer and ready to hold events in November 2009, by which time the other nine stadiums should be up and running, too.

In addition, the final rail lines and buses will be in commission and ready to carry the 500,000 fans expected at the ten World Cup venues, the end of an epic investment programme on a scale never seen in Africa. South Africa will have spent about 600 billion rands (about £400 million) on transport, construction and infrastructure by the time the first ball is kicked.

All spent on a dream that a World Cup can transform a nation. Perhaps it is just fanciful, as Becker believes, but the regeneration is transforming swaths of South Africa’s poorest suburbs and the legacy is already here as each rough clay pitch is replaced by artificial turf and soccer schools, and thousands of poor children, for the first time in their lives, kick footballs that fly straight and true.

South Africa is already enjoying the regeneration and the legacy. Now it just wants to fulfil its dream of a peaceful and prosperous World Cup.

[Rafa]

Baron's Orlando Stadium is ready!
Cost: $28m
Capacity: 40000

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[jim jones]

Well the progress is certainly there Mo and I personally think South Africa will have a World Cup that Africa and Beyond will be proud of . Too bad that one stadium will apparently not be ready for the confederations cup but hey that does not take away from the achievement South Africa has with these capital projects which are a huge task by any standards or in any country. I really like the paneling on one stadium that is very artistic and random in nature. The finished product I am sure will be one of the iconic images for the World Cup 2010 much like the Stadium for Munich was for WC 2006.

Is it true that all the infrastructure improvements are costing 50 billion dollars ? I think i read that somewhere in a new article.

Jim jones

[Rafa]

The stadium will be complete. FIFA have just adjusted their deadline to March 2009, based on their experience with Germany where one stadium was completed on the opening day of the Confed Cup. Deadlines were therefore shifted 6 months earlier for existing venues and 3 months earlier for new venues. Eventhough the new venue in PE will be completed before the last German Confed Cup venue, this is too much of a risk for FIFA a second time around

[NY20??]

Question: Cape Town for the opening match, Johanesburg (Soccer City) for the final...? Any word on that?

[Olympian2004]

NY20??, on Dec 4 2008, 12:19 AM, said:

Question: Cape Town for the opening match, Johanesburg (Soccer City) for the final...? Any word on that?

Johannesburg's Soccer City will host both the opening match and the final.

See here

[Rafa]

yip. Cape Town hosts the second match on the opening day at 20:30

see the match schedule on FIFA's website.

[Rafa]

Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
FIFA World Cup Training Venue, 30000 seats

[Rafa]

A job I don't want!